The Royal Commission into Aged Care has heard half of the residents of troubled Gold Coast nursing home Earle Haven were being physically restrained in the weeks before it closed last month.
The Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission report from June 25 showed not only were 50 per cent physically restrained, 71 per cent were also being chemically restrained with psychotropic medication.
Just over two weeks after the report was compiled, the contractor that ran the village shut it down over a contract dispute with its owner, leaving about 70 residents needing emergency housing.